Basketball At Hyde Research Paper

Basketball at Hyde

The moment I stepped into the Hyde Middle School gym for tryouts, I already knew that I would make the team. The basketball I played in my Elementary school has been a big help for me coming into the tryouts. Tryouts were on August 24,2015 where we did drills to help the coach see our skills as an individual players. I could just see all the timid faces of everyone in the gym. The final few hours of tryouts, we were scrimmaging playing five on five. I thought I did a good job scoring most of my team's points besides the fact I missed a wide open lay-up. When tryouts was over, coach told me the few words that I was waiting to hear the whole entire I was at tryouts,“Congratulations, I have selected you to play on my team.”

The first few weeks were tiring. Every practice I will always come home with nasty sweat covering my whole body; but that means a good coach willing to push us over the limits. We all kept learning new plays and improving every practice. A lot of the times when we would all mess up, coach would always help us improve and do a lot of push-ups. The worst days of practice are when we don't have the gym and we have to practice outside. Mostly because the temperature always feels like 100 degrees but also the dirtiness of the concrete comes onto our hands. On the plus side though, every two days of practice we would alternate switching within the gym with the seventh graders and the eighth

We all thought that if we could do it once, we could do it twice which really gave me the confidence to play hard. After the third quarter ended, we lost our energy thinking we would lose because all our shots weren't falling which led to a big difference. When the fourth quarter started, coach brought up a really good point which we missed during the first three quarters which was to press! We then all remembered our saying which was If you could do it once we could do it twice so we used our press and somehow got back in the game! We maintained our lead all the way to the end. We all cheered loudly and high fived the other team which mostly all of them were crying sobbing with tears. Coming into the second game we were excited and hopeful on our quarter-final performance. Now it's the semi-finals. We played against Cupertino Middle School which only lost one game out of seven games the entire season middle school basketball. This time we remembered to use our press which worked again pretty well. They had many turnovers with the ball but they still managed to win us. It was a tough lost to a team in the semi-finals but it was worth a try and we still fought as a team which is the most important part in playing